Stigmatizing Language, Patient Demographics, and Errors in the Diagnostic Process

Katherine C Brooks; Katie E Raffel; David Chia; Abhishek Karwa; Colin C Hubbard; Andrew D Auerbach; Sumant R Ranji

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.0705

Stigmatizing Language, Patient Demographics, and Errors in the Diagnostic Process

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Apr 15:e240705. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.0705. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Katherine C Brooks¹, Katie E Raffel^{2

3}, David Chia¹, Abhishek Karwa¹, Colin C Hubbard⁴, Andrew D Auerbach⁴, Sumant R Ranji¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco.
² Division of Hospital Medicine, Denver Health, University of Colorado, Denver.
³ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver.
⁴ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

PMID: 38619826
PMCID: PMC11019435 (available on 2025-04-15)
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.0705

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study assesses the association between stigmatizing language, demographic characteristics, and errors in the diagnostic process among hospitalized adults.